Both Uses of
testimony
in
1984 by Orwell
- An overpowering smell of sweat, a sort of unconscious testimony to the strenuousness of his life, followed him about wherever he went, and even remained behind him after he had gone.†
p. 22..5 *
- Very occasionally some person whom you had believed dead long since would make a ghostly reappearance at some public trial where he would implicate hundreds of others by his testimony before vanishing, this time forever.†
p. 46..0
Definition:
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(testimony) something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing